WAKE UP: Sick of that snoring lug...

WAKE UP: Sick of that snoring lug next to you? Glendale Adventist Medical Center wants video- and audiotapes of chronic snorers for--believe it or not--a snoring contest. The winner gets free consultation and treatment at the hospital’s Sleep Disorders Center. . . . The champion log sawer will be selected by a panel of doctors. Sounds like that job could be a real sleep aid. . . .

HEALTH HAZARD: Wild West gunslinger John Wesley Hardin once shot a man for snoring. And while rarely that deadly, snoring usually indicates other health problems, said sleep center coordinator Kathy Cavander. Chronic heavy snoring can mean the snorer actually stops breathing several times a night--a condition called sleep apnea. . . . The disorder disrupts normal sleep, and not just for the snorer.

HOME-GROWN: CSUN went with one of its own--again--when it introduced its new men’s basketball coach on Tuesday (C6). Bobby Braswell, 33, above, is a Northridge graduate. . . . When it hired its head football coach last year, Northridge sought out Dave Baldwin, a CSUN graduate and a former Matador football player.

CHINA SYNDROME: Subway tunnelers have yet to dig their way to China, but county Supervisor Mike Antonovich thinks they ought to take a cue from transit planners there. Citing the switch of a Chinese rail project from subway to monorail because of cost overruns, Antonovich is repeating his call to abandon an underground route across the Valley. . . . “It is time to bring our subway out of the ground,” said the longtime subway critic.

FERGIE’S FREE: Have the Valley secessionists taken it too far? At a downtown press conference today, the North Valley Coalition promises to call for Valley “succession.” . . . Surely the royal reference is a typo, but who wouldn’t be proud to be called King of the Valley? It was once the name of a North Hollywood used appliance store.